March 2010
2 posts
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“Why linger on the past, which we cannot change? We must move toward a brighter...”
– Timothy B. Tyson
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“So if I get loveted and it’s three months in this mesto and another six in...”
– Alex, A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
January 2010
7 posts
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“We can get outside the universe. I mean in the sense of putting a model of the...”
– Richard Dawkins
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“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our...”
– Richard Dawkins
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“We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking...”
– Richard Dawkins
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“It is no accident that we see green almost wherever we look. It is no accident...”
– Richard Dawkins
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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object...”
– Charles Darwin
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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there...”
– Richard Dawkins
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan
December 2009
32 posts
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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the...”
– Winston Churchill
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“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
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“We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
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“He’d had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“By then all stores of food had given out and murder was everywhere upon the...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He shook his head. You’re asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He could not construct for the child’s pleasure the world he’d lost...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet....”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire
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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
– Voltaire
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say...”
– Voltaire
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“Those who, with increasing noise, are insisting that free speech can only be...”
– Philip Hensher
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“Is a tolerant society one in which you tolerate absurdities, iniquities and...”
– Rowan Atkinson
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“The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”
– Bertrand Russell
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“It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate,...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
– Granville Hicks
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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted...”
– Laurence Peter
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“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
– Bernard Berenson
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“The kingdom of heaven promised us certain things: it promised us happiness and a...”
– Philip Pullman
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“He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We...”
– Philip Pullman
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“What work do I have to do then?” said Will, but went on at once,...”
– Philip Pullman
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“Maybe sometimes we don’t do the right thing because the wrong thing looks...”
– Philip Pullman
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“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were...”
– Philip Pullman
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“If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors,...”
– Daniel C. Dennett
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“In his youth the world had been a bud and he a beetle in its heart, enfolded by...”
– Elspeth Huxley
October 2009
1 post
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“Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the...”
– St. Augustine
July 2009
15 posts
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“I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who...”
– Carl Sagan
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“We kill each other, or threaten to kill each other, in part, I think, because we...”
– Carl Sagan
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“If praying did any good, they would be hiring men to pray.”
– Yiddish proverb
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“And yet, if we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility? I...”
– Carl Sagan
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“The system of the sun, compared but with as very minute part of the visible...”
– Thomas Wright
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“You have a specific responsibility to existence, to God if you like, to taste,...”
– Sam Sheridan
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“Life is born of struggle and striving, true joy and understanding do not come...”
– Sam Sheridan